Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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  • Struggle

• My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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  • Bitter

• With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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  • Like

• As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
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• I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  

  Jackson Browne

• From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

  

  Wendell Berry
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  • Power

• Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• So spread the word cause I'm promoting my past until I'm passed out.

  

  Eminem
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• My ambition was not to create a new field, but I would have welcomed a permanent group of people having interests close to mine and therefore breaking the disastrous tendency towards increasingly well-defined fields. Unfortunately, I failed on this essential point, very badly. Order doesn't come by itself.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
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• I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.

  

  Betsy Hodges
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• The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

  

  Ali Fazal

• I feel like people make such a big deal out of sexuality. It's so weird to me, because at the end of the day, it's just about soul connection. It's just about who you connect with.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Soul
  • Weird

• What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.

  

  Christina Romer
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• I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

  

  Anson Mount
  • Time
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  • Character

• I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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  • Heart
  • Memories

• I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.

  

  Karine Vanasse
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  • Judy Garland

• An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

  

  Terence McKenna
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